Lily is a movement ecologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She is interested in how and where highly mobile predators travel, what their journeys can teach us about their evolutionary histories, and how to translate research findings into effective conservation policies. At UQ, in affiliation with the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, she is currently working on using animal tracking data and network models to understand migratory connectivity in the oceans. She received her BSc (Hons) from the University of Queensland, studying the thermal physiology and behaviour of wild saltwater crocodiles. In her PhD, at the University of Cambridge, she investigated the foraging ecology of albatrosses and petrels across the Southern Ocean.
Journal Article: Spatial and life history variation in a trait-based species vulnerability and impact model
Fleury, Aharon G., O’Hara, Casey C., Butt, Nathalie, Restrepo, Jaime, Halpern, Benjamin S., Klein, Carissa J., Kuempel, Caitlin D., Gaynor, Kaitlyn M., Bentley, Lily K., Richardson, Anthony J. and Dunn, Daniel C. (2024). Spatial and life history variation in a trait-based species vulnerability and impact model. PLoS One, 19 (6) e0305950, 1-16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305950
Journal Article: Habitat preferences of Phoebetria albatrosses in sympatry and allopatry
Bentley, Lily K., Phillips, Richard A., Carpenter‐Kling, Tegan, Crawford, Robert J. M., Cuthbert, Richard J., Delord, Karine, Dilley, Ben J., Makhado, Azwianewi B., Miller, Peter I., Oppel, Steffen, Pistorius, Pierre A., Ryan, Peter G., Schoombie, Stefan, Weimerskirch, Henri and Manica, Andrea (2024). Habitat preferences of Phoebetria albatrosses in sympatry and allopatry. Journal of Biogeography, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/jbi.14966
Other Outputs: Moving on migration
Bentley, Lily (2024, 05 07). Moving on migration Australian Geographic 32-32.
Spatial and life history variation in a trait-based species vulnerability and impact model
Fleury, Aharon G., O’Hara, Casey C., Butt, Nathalie, Restrepo, Jaime, Halpern, Benjamin S., Klein, Carissa J., Kuempel, Caitlin D., Gaynor, Kaitlyn M., Bentley, Lily K., Richardson, Anthony J. and Dunn, Daniel C. (2024). Spatial and life history variation in a trait-based species vulnerability and impact model. PLoS One, 19 (6) e0305950, 1-16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305950
Habitat preferences of Phoebetria albatrosses in sympatry and allopatry
Bentley, Lily K., Phillips, Richard A., Carpenter‐Kling, Tegan, Crawford, Robert J. M., Cuthbert, Richard J., Delord, Karine, Dilley, Ben J., Makhado, Azwianewi B., Miller, Peter I., Oppel, Steffen, Pistorius, Pierre A., Ryan, Peter G., Schoombie, Stefan, Weimerskirch, Henri and Manica, Andrea (2024). Habitat preferences of Phoebetria albatrosses in sympatry and allopatry. Journal of Biogeography, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/jbi.14966
Bentley, Lily K., Manica, Andrea, Dilley, Ben J., Ryan, Peter G. and Phillips, Richard A. (2022). Divergent foraging habitat preferences between summer-breeding and winter-breeding Procellaria petrels. Ibis, 165 (2), 618-628. doi: 10.1111/ibi.13152
Diving behaviour of albatrosses: implications for foraging ecology and bycatch susceptibility
Bentley, L. K., Kato, A., Ropert-Coudert, Y., Manica, A. and Phillips, R. A. (2021). Diving behaviour of albatrosses: implications for foraging ecology and bycatch susceptibility. Marine Biology, 168 (3) 36. doi: 10.1007/s00227-021-03841-y
Betti, Lia, Beyer, Robert M., Jones, Eppie R., Eriksson, Anders, Tassi, Francesca, Siska, Veronika, Leonardi, Michela, Maisano Delser, Pierpaolo, Bentley, Lily K., Nigst, Philip R., Stock, Jay T., Pinhasi, Ron and Manica, Andrea (2020). Climate shaped how Neolithic farmers and European hunter-gatherers interacted after a major slowdown from 6,100 bce to 4,500 bce. Nature Human Behaviour, 4 (10), 1004-1010. doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-0897-7
Bentley, Lily (2024, 05 07). Moving on migration Australian Geographic 32-32.
Fuller, Richard, Dunn, Daniel and Bentley, Lily (2024, 02 13). The world’s spectacular animal migrations are dwindling. Fishing, fences and development are fast-tracking extinctions The Conversation
Beyond Known Hotspots in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
(2023–2024) MigraMar